Andreas Schmidt (artist)

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Andreas Schmidt
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The City by Andreas Schmidt (artist)
Born (1967-07-19) 19 July 1967 (age 56)
Werneck, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known for Conceptual art, appropriation art, contemporary art, photography and video
Website Online Galerie

Andreas Schmidt is a Berlin based artist and gallerist. [1]

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Biography

Schmidt received a first class Bachelor of Arts (Photography) degree from Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design in 1992, after having moved to England from Germany in 1989. [2] [3] Schmidt's early work consisted mainly of straight analogue photography with a later shift in his art practice from 2008 onward towards appropriation, performance, print-on-demand artist's books and video. [4] [5]

Work

In 2005 German fine art and photography book publisher Hatje Cantz, published his first hard-back monograph Las Vegas to international critical acclaim. [6] In the accompanying essay, Christoph Ribbat states about Schmidt's photography: "His work hints at the soberness of the New Topographics, the humor of New Color, the clever objectivity of newer German photo art." Described by J. G. Ballard as "the poet of the hotel corridor", Schmidt's second book, The City was published by Hatje Cantz in 2009 and presents dystopian interior and exterior photographs of London's financial district.

Schmidt was a founding member of ABC Artists' Books Cooperative in early 2009 and left the group in 2014. His work was shown at the From Here On group show [7] at Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles in 2011, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp in 2012 and Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona in 2013 curated by Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels and Clément Chéroux, showcasing art works by 36 artists (Mishka Henner, Penelope Umbrico, Doug Rickard, Corinne Vionnet, Thomas Mailaender, Willem Popelier, Constant Dullaart, Jon Rafman, etc.) The exhibition, included a large panel triptych by Schmidt called "RGB". [8] In 2011, Schmidt's artist book Four Seasons [9] featured in Photo-Eye's books of the year 2011 list and Schmidt's artist book The Cost of Photobooks: A History Volume II [10] was listed by Le Monde as one of the 10 best photo books of 2011.

On 14 November 2013 Schmidt launched GESAMTBUCHKUNSTWERKSKULPTUR, [11] [12] a custom-made shelving unit containing 77 artist's books at Offprint Paris. [13]

His artist book The Time Machine [14] [15] was included in the group exhibition A History of Photography: Series and Sequences at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2015 which also featured work by Nicholas Nixon, August Sander, Eadweard Muybridge and Lewis Baltz among others.

Schmidt's work is held in a number of private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, Centre Des Livres Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA. After having lived in London for 22 years, Schmidt moved to Berlin in 2014 and opened Galerie Andreas Schmidt specializing in photography and contemporary art in 2016.

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Exhibitions

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References

  1. International Exhibitions Overview
  2. Career Public Profile
  3. London Artist Guide Print Media
  4. Print on demand books Overview of Art books Archived 2016-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Video´s by Andreas Schmidt Overview of Art in Motion by Andreas Schmidt
  6. Press Article Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Las Vegas
  7. Official Website Les Recontres De La Photographie Exhibition - From Here On
  8. Cataloge - From Here On RGB
  9. Official Website Photoeye Book Four Seasons
  10. Official Webpage Le Monde
  11. Press Article Schweinfurter Tagblatt 77 artist's books
  12. The making of GesamtBuchKunstWerkSkulptur
  13. Eyecurious Blog Entry Marc Feustel Blog Entry
  14. Official Website Victoria and Albert Museum Series and Sequences
  15. Arts Libris Seminar 2014 Seminar Collecting Artists' Books. Reviewed by Elizabeth James, V&A Museum The Time Machine (forward to 15:10)
  16. Official Website Camera Austria Camera Austria 45
  17. Official Website Las Vegas - Monograph
  18. Press Article Boerse am Sonntag 2010 The City - Book Review Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
  19. Official Website MIT Press Art Book
  20. Official Website Artbook Cataloge
  21. Official Website Fotofestiwal International Festival Of Fotography in Lodz
  22. WDR Television Interview Archived September 28, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  23. Official Website Artslant Worldwide Archived 2016-04-29 at archive.today Exhibition
  24. Andreas Schmidt Recent Exhibits Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  25. Official Website Photographers’ Gallery Exhibition Archived 2016-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
  26. Presse Article Andreas Schmidt Exhibition Kunsthalle Schweinfurt Archived 2016-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
  27. Official Website Goethe Institut Atopia Exhibition